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Archive for June, 2007

The Global Geek Podcast :: Hiatus!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Well the time has come, Dave is now rapidly shoving things into boxes at the last minute so he can get the removalists to pick up his stuff and take it to his new house!
That means that this weeks show is short, VERY short…
In fact there isn’t actually a show this week, but check out [...]

Brisbane’s Ocean Bound Parliament House

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

While checking out some exotic locations near French Polynesia tonight in Google Earth, I happened to notice that there was a small Wikipedia icon out in the middle of the ocean, just off the coast of some of the tiny islands that make up the area of the globe.
Well, to my surprise, Google Earth had [...]

GGP Widget Bling for your website…

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Actual Widget… Start Clicking!

Just when you thought you’d have a quiet weekend without any posts from the Global Geek Podcast to read while you sip wine from a golden goblet in your cashmere dressing gown, here is another post to keep you going until the next episode!
But this time its a little special…
You see while [...]

Thinking of Switching to a Mac?

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Tim and I have been drooling after the release of the new features that will be appearing in Apple’s Leopard Release. If you have not seen what is coming then definitely check it out. There are heaps of screencasts and screenshots. Both Tim and myself are seriously thinking of making the switch to Apple. As [...]

Listener Question :: Resizing Images for Blog and Web Page Use

Friday, June 15th, 2007

This post is inspired by another listener question (See comments for our previous show). Jeff once again asks us about images for posting to web pages and I presume blog posts, he writes:
“I am looking for a FireFox extension that calculates the image dimensions for a proportionately resized image. I want the extension to allow [...]

Tw3t.com - Twitter for your webcam!

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

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Some of you people I’m sure have been keeping tabs on the whole twitter fiasco.
Well here it is now for your webcam!
If you happen to be using the Tweetr *Betr 1.0 release from yesterday then you can take a captured image with your webcam and it auto-uploads to the Tw3t.com

Now the Tweetr client [...]

The Global Geek Podcast #054 :: Armageddon Approaches

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

As regular listeners can appreciate this are getting very busy for Dave. Part the reason we are yet again “late” this week. The other thing is that shift work is a bitch…
Dave has but one more week until internet silence… and he is dreading it. But we are ripping out shows as quick and as [...]

DivX Pro Free for One Day Only

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Be quick on this one. The crew round at DivX are giving away free copies of DivX, but there is a catch. This is for one day only. I have no idea what so ever how long this offer has been going but it is sure not to last too much longer.
This application is the [...]

Flickr for Facebook

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Those Global Geekers that are on Facebook will appreciate this one. As many would realize there are heaps of applications available as “plug-ins” for your profile. They provide access to resources such as photo editing and video uploading as well as some of your social networks such as twitter and now we see Flickr integration.
There [...]

Digg Clone from India

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Okay this one made me laugh my head off. Seriously funny stuff. This is nothing new from the perspective that it is another Digg clone. We have seen them before right. But I bet you have never seen one from India…
Called Mirchh this is a brand new Indian based start-up and it is the way [...]